David Bergamini

INTRODUCTION The work at hand resurveys an area of history which I once explored in a judicial capacity. Whilst Chief Justice of the Australian state of Queensland and later a justice of the High Court of Australia, I headed the bench of eleven judges from eleven nations known as the...

Preface To many biologists, Australasia—the Australian continent with its outlying islands—is the most interesting region in the world. Its flora and fauna are a bizarre mixture of the primitive and the advanced, and provide better glimpses into some of the basic processes of evolution than...